#activity

There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#bath #communal #group #hairy #i

The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#basically #behalf #consumers #corporate #designed

Activity in politics also produces eager competition and sharp rivalry. ↗

— John George Nicolay

#also #competition #eager #politics #produces

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#aesthetic #any #art #certain #exist

Now our whole activity is devoted to God, and our whole life, since we are bent on progress in divine things. ↗

— Origen

#bent #devoted #divine #god #life

The most important thing for small businesses is getting the economy back on its feet. That - the key driver of small business activity is demand for their product, and that is what we are trying to do, getting the economy back on its feet. That's far more important than other factors. ↗

— Peter Orszag

#back #business #businesses #demand #driver

Well, I think what we need to remember is that budget deficits can impede economic activity. ↗

— Peter Orszag

#budget #budget deficits #deficits #economic #economic activity

I turned down a lot of easier opportunities in order to go for the things that I really and ultimately wanted to do. And what's really nice is that it's starting to work. I've been an actor for coming up on 14 years now and the level of activity that's taking place now is a culmination of a slow cooker approach to as opposed to a microwave. ↗

— David Oyelowo

#actor #approach #been #coming #culmination

The result is that you are now experiencing what we experienced in the war in Algeria: The Israeli government says that it is a victim of terrorist activity, but this activity is less visible than the military strikes. ↗

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

#algeria #experienced #experiencing #government #israeli

Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity - but not of terrorist sympathies. ↗

— Richard Perle

#admission #american #bars #law #now